Stars & Stripes wrote:
NAHA, Okinawa —]Manuel [/B]Taitano, husband of a civilian Marine base employee, was arrested March 1 by Japanese narcotics officers following a drug raid at the Yomitan home of Satsuki Kawamura, the girlfriend of his friend and supplier, Yuichi Mekaru, 29.
Police said Taitano admitted to heating the stimulant phenylmethyl aminopropane and inhaling the vaporization in Kawamura’s home . . .
I somehow doubt that they were the words he used.

. . . A tearful Taitano asked Judge Hiroyuki Yoshii to be lenient on his sentence. Taitano, who lived on Kadena Air Base, has no previous criminal record on Okinawa.
“I’m not a bad person. Just give me a chance,” he said . . .
Does he mean that he could be a bad person, if given a chance?

. . . Taitano’s wife, Janet, testified she was shocked to learn about her husband’s arrest and drug use . . . more
Given this "speed-ing" problem, maybe she should've got an automatic (rather than a Manuel).

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